innocent - Definition | Dictionary definition of innocent

Definition of innocent

free from evil or guilt

"an innocent child"

"the principle that one is innocent until proved guilty"

Synonyms:: clean-handed, guiltless; exculpatory
clearing of guilt or blame; righteous
characterized by or proceeding from accepted standards of morality or justice; absolved, clear, cleared, exculpated, exonerated, vindicated
freed from any question of guilt; acquitted, not guilty
declared not guilty of a specific offense or crime; legally blameless; blameless, inculpable, irreproachable, unimpeachable
free of guilt; not subject to blame

Antonyms:: guilty
responsible for or chargeable with a reprehensible act; inculpative, inculpatory
causing blame to be imputed to; unrighteous
not righteous; at fault
deserving blame; blamable, blameable, blameful, blameworthy, censurable, culpable
deserving blame or censure as being wrong or evil or injurious; bloodguilty
guilty of murder or bloodshed; chargeable, indictable
liable to be accused, or cause for such liability; conscience-smitten
affected by conscience; criminal
guilty of crime or serious offense; delinquent
guilty of a misdeed; finable, fineable
liable to a fine; guilt-ridden
feeling or revealing a sense of guilt; punishable
liable to or deserving punishment; red-handed
in the act of committing a crime or other reprehensible act; show more antonyms...

lacking intent or capacity to injure

"an innocent prank"

free from sin

lacking in sophistication or worldliness

"a child's innocent stare"

Synonyms:: ingenuous; naif, naive
marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience

not knowledgeable about something specified

"American tourists wholly innocent of French"

Synonyms:: unacquainted; uninformed
not informed; lacking in knowledge or information

completely wanting or lacking

"innocent of literary merit"

Synonyms:: barren, destitute, devoid, free; nonexistent
not having existence or being or actuality

(used of things) lacking sense or awareness

"fine innocent weather"

Synonyms:: unconscious
not conscious; lacking awareness and the capacity for sensory perception as if asleep or dead

a person who lacks knowledge of evil

Types:: show 4 types...; hide 4 types...; boy scout
a man who is considered naive; dear, lamb
a sweet innocent mild-mannered person (especially a child); naif
a naive or inexperienced person; virgin
a person who has never had sex